CHAPTER 5. WRITING A FOREING LANGUAGE

QUESTIONS:

1. What do you mean when refer to writing?

A) The particular writing system

B) The choice and mastery of a particular

medium of expression and the product which

emerges.

C) Two answer are true

QUESTIONS:

2. Some specific skills attached to writing

are:

A) Graphic, grammatical, expressive, rhetorical

and organisational skills.

B) Expressive, rhetorical and speaking.

C) Expressive, rhetorical and formal.

QUESTIONS:

3. Order in which the skills are presented:

A) The Audiolingual method and the

Structuralists established a fixed order: listening,

speaking, readin and writing.

B) any practice in writing should be based on a

previous oral activity and should be aimed at

reinfocing it.

C) Two anwers are correct.

QUESTIONS:

4. When we are writing something we

usually:

A) Reading after.

B) “Try it out” by pronuncing it internally in what

is known as “inner speech”

C) To read what we have written to revise

content and grammar.

QUESTIONS:

5. Reading as a source of input and model for

written language:

A) Reading is the best way to master writing

B) Writing skills are acquired in different way as

speaking skills.

C) Students dont’t need to receive

comprehensible reading input.

QUESTIONS:

6. Spoken language needs:

A) No immediate feed back.

B) The natural unit of expression is the

paragraph.

C) An immediate response

QUESTIONS:

7. Some differences between written and

spoken discourse are:

A) Spoken are more informal and written is

formal.

B) Spoken language needs a situational context

help undertanding and written language use only

the linguistic context.

C) Two answers are true.

QUESTIONS:

8. There are 3 important things to be

considered in the writing process:

A) The content, the teacher’s perspective and

the purpose.

B) The content, the reader and the purpose.

C) The content, the reader and the summaries.

QUESTIONS:

9. Memory aids and entertainment written

for:

A) The exclusive use of the writer, usually in the

mother tongue (personal writing)

B) Written for personal use, these may also be

read by third person.

C) Written by public and professional writers.

QUESTIONS:

10. The purpose should be meaningful for the

pupil, related to his interests because:

A) Make them think in order to solve a problem,

are entertaining and communicate something.

B) Communicate something and have a specific

use for the pupils.

C) Two answers are true.

QUESTIONS

11. Writing is important in teaching /Learning

process of language because

A)It is useful learning tool

B) It helps to consolidate and reinforce the

learning of other knowledge (Grammar,

vocabulary…)

C) Two answers are true.

QUESTIONS

12. Attention is paid to grammar and syntax

ass well as to appropiate choice of

vocabulary and structure of writing is

A)The communicative approach

B)The grammar syntax organisation approad

C) The free writing approach

QUESTIONS

13. According to Towards “A methodology

is….

A)Familiarisation, controlled writing, guided

writing and free writing.

B) Familiarisation and controlled writing and

dictation

C) Free writing

QUESTIONS

14. Jumbled sentences to form coherent

paragraphs

A) Controlled writing

B) Familiarisation

C) Free writing

QUESTIONS

15. In the spoken language

A) It is a spontaneous activity

B) The situational context helps understanding

C) A and B are true

QUESTIONS

16. The skills involved in writing are…

A) Graphic or visuals skills

B) Orational skills

C) A and B are false

QUESTIONS

17. Order in which the skills are presented …

A)The TPR Method

B) The Audiolingua Method

C) The CLT Method

QUESTIONS

18. The organisational skills are…

A) This concerns the organisation of information

B) This concerns the organisation of writing

C)A and B are false

QUESTIONS

19. In the spoken language…

A)Informal is less

B)Informal is more

C)A and B are true

QUESTIONS

20. In the writing language…

A)It is permanent

B) Formal and polished

C)A and B are true